West Coast Live

West Coast Live is a weekly two-hour radio variety show hosted by Sedge Thomson. The unscripted program features interviews with world-renowned authors and cultural figures along with performances by musicians, comedians and other entertainers. It is broadcast live-to-satellite each Saturday morning in front of a theater audience from one of several San Francisco Bay area venues. The show is carried on NPR stations from coast-to-coast, and in Paris, France.[1] Occasionally, the show will travel to various theaters, music festivals and film festivals throughout the northwest. The Biospherical Digital-Optical Aquaphone is the trademarked signature of Sedge Thomson.[2]

This article is about the radio show. For the album by Chet Baker and Stan Getz, see West Coast Live (album).
West Coast Live
GenreVariety show
Running timeca. 119 min.
Country of originUSA
Language(s)English
Home stationKALW
SyndicatesKALW
WCL Radio Network
Hosted bySedge Thomson
Created bySedge Thomson
Produced byCase Conover
Recording studioSan Francisco Bay Area
various venues
Original release1992 – present
Audio formatStereophonic
Opening themeMike Greensill
Websitehttp://www.wcl.org
Podcasthttp://wcl.org/podcasts/pcast.rss


Past guests

Writers include: Diane Ackerman, Maya Angelou, Julian Barnes, T.C. Boyle, Ray Bradbury, A.S. Byatt, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Chabon, Julia Child, Billy Collins, Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jonathan Safran Foer, William Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, Daniel Handler, Robert Hass, John Irving, Jamaica Kincaid, Anne Lamott, Gregory Maguire, Greil Marcus, Armistead Maupin, Michael McClure, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Susan Orlean, P.J. O'Rourke, Raj Patel, Michael Pollan, Tom Robbins, Salman Rushdie, David Sedaris, Eric Schlosser, Zadie Smith, Gary Snyder, Calvin Trillin, Chris Van Allsburg, Tobias Wolff, Alice Walker, Alice Waters, Irvine Welsh, Edmund White, Jacqueline Winspear, Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Wolf, Tobias Wolff, Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

Musicians include: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Greensky Bluegrass, Tim Bluhm, Billy Bragg, The Neville Brothers, Greg Brown, Sam Bush, David Byrne, Bruce Cockburn, Judy Collins, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tommy Emmanuel, Michael Franti, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, David Grisman, Arlo Guthrie, Ben Harper, Richie Havens, Sean Hayes, Dan Hicks, Jolie Holland, Zakir Hussain, The String Cheese Incident, Leo Kottke, Taj Mahal, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ray Manzarek, Country Joe McDonald, Tuck & Patti, U. Utah Phillips, Kronos Quartet, Jonathan Richman, Peter Rowan, Blame Sally, Pharoah Sanders, Merl Saunders, John Sebastian, Chris Smither, Allen Toussaint, Charlie Hunter Trio, Trance Mission, Hot Tuna, McCoy Tyner, The Devil Makes Three, Vetiver, Loudon Wainwright III.

Actors include: Carrie Fisher, Peter Gallagher, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Larry Hankin, Bill Irwin, Eddie Izzard, Terry Jones, Rita Moreno, Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Debra Winger, Geoff Bolt, Michael O'Brien Others include: Andre Agassi, Jerry Brown, Roger Ebert, Wavy Gravy, Spalding Gray, Guerrilla Girls, Garrison Keillor, Craig Newmark, Peter Sellars, Steve Wozniak.

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gollark: Otherwise known as 6D potato-space, projected onto 2 dimensions.
gollark: Parenting is annoying and children are mostly bad.
gollark: I mean, being an uncle or other relative could be cool, I could indoctrinate children and all that, but I wouldn't want to actually have to *parent* any directly.
gollark: Besides, I do not have children, and do not want them.
gollark: > do you gollark feel comfortable showing hentai to your children?What? I'm not talking about that sort of thing.

References
  1. http://www.worldradioparis.fr/about-wrp/partners/
  2. Rick DelVecchio (21 May 2004). "Berkeley: Radio show makes cultural waves". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-01-10.


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